Story+2009-05-12+Chicago,+IL

“Chicago! (crowd cheers) are you ready to be delivered? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Badlands”**

“Who wants to go to Greasy Lake out there? (crowd cheers)…we’re going to Greasy Lake (crowd cheers)…can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“Good evening, Chicago! (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in your beautiful city tonight (crowd cheers)…the E Street Band has come here tonight filled with purpose…we plan to fulfil our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we didn’t come all this way here tonight just to rock the house…we came here tonight to build a house (crowd cheers) that’s right, right here in this room tonight we’re gonna build a house…we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of love (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take despair that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of hope…we’re gonna take the doubt that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of faith…we’re gonna take the sadness that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of joy and happiness (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build us a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s right…that’s right…and we’re gonna use the bad wood and we’re gonna use the good wood…and we’re gonna use the bad news and we’re gonna use the good news that’s out there…and we got all the tools we need right here on this stage and in these seats tonight (crowd cheers) that’s right…but there’s just one thing, we can’t do it by ourselves…that’s why we’re here night after night after night after night because we can’t build that house by ourselves…if we wanna build a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise …well, the E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring the power of the music out on you (crowd cheers) but, Chicago, we need you to bring the noise! (crowd cheers) sing it like you mean it …”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“Alright…keeping with our recent tradition we will try to play something we’ve never played before (crowd cheers) what key?... what key you got?...(tries some keys)…I think it’s “G” (sings off-mic)…don’t this thing have some weird bridge?...(laughs from the crowd)…is there a weird part in the middle?...alright, this may have a weird part in the middle but we’ll see when we get there, I don’t know…(?)…alright, hold on, hold on, brother man…how’s it start?... yeah, start with drums, Max…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Mony Mony”**

“Thank you…thank you, boys…we’ll send this one out to Pats, she sends her love, she’s at home, she’s still recuperating from falling off a horse a little bit and we got all the kids home so…this is for her, Pats, this is for you…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Kingdom of Days”**

“(?)…thanks, everybody, thank you for coming out to the show tonight, thank you (crowd cheers) thank you, Chicago (crowd cheers) we got some friends in the hall tonight from the Greater Chicago Food Depository, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, last year alone they distributed more than 46 million pounds of food for the struggling citizens here in Chicago area, all you gotta do is pick up the newspapers to see how many jobs have been lost, millions of jobs over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of jobs recently, there’s folks who, uh…the grassroots organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository is their only safety net, between going to bed with their kids having some nutritious food or hungry so while we’re going through these very difficult times, support your neighbors and the Greater Chicago Food Depository on your way out, please (crowd cheers) this was a song…written by Stephen Foster in 1855…the more things change, the more they stay the same, this is “Hard times come again no more”…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Hard Times”**

“For Chicago! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Jungleland”**

“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) (…) The incredible Little Steven on the guitar (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) the thunder from down under, Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the prodigy, Jay Weinberg (crowd cheers) the brilliant Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren on the guitar (crowd cheers) the beautiful Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) Chicago! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) that’s fucking right!...”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “American Land”**

“It ain’t over yet (crowd cheers) it ain’t over yet (crowd cheers) it ain’t over yet (crowd cheers)…”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Dancing in the Dark”**

“Bring the power, baby!...”
 * 12.05.09 Chicago, IL, intro to “Rosalita”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//